Engel

Born: 1915 - New York

Parents: Clarence & Emma Engel

Siblings: 4 brothers

Hometown: Rochester, New York

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 13 February 1941 - Buffalo, New York

Training:

- Fort Knox, Kentucky

- Camp Polk, Louisiana

Units:

- 753rd Tank Battalion

- 192nd Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty:

- Philippine Islands

Engagements:

- Battle of Luzon

- Battle of Bataan

POW:

- 9 April 1942

- Death March

- Mariveles - POWs start march at southern tip of Bataan

- POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing on Corregidor

- American artillery on Corregidor returned fire

- San Fernando -POWs put into small wooden boxcars used to haul sugarcane

- each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men

- Japanese packed 100 POWs into each boxcar

- POWs who died remained standing

- Capas - POWs left boxcars - dead POWs fell to the floor

- POWs walked the last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell

Camps:

Philippines:

- Camp O'Donnell

- unfinished Filipino Army training base

- Japanese put camp into use as POW camp

- one water spigot for the entire camp

- as many as fifty POWs died each day

- POWs went out on work details to get out of camp

- Cabanatuan #1

Died:

- 16 June 1942 - malaria

- Approximate time of death - 8:30 AM

Buried:

- American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands